[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 70 (Friday, April 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 17888]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9394]


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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION


Notice of Removal of the Texas Instruments, Incorporated, 
Attleboro, Massachusetts Site From the NRC Site Decommissioning 
Management Plan and Termination of the NRC License for the Facility

SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the public that the U.S. Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission is removing the Texas Instruments, Incorporated, 
Attleboro, Massachusetts site from the NRC Site Decommissioning 
Management Plan (SDMP). NRC has determined that remediation of residual 
radioactive contamination, as a result of past operations with NRC 
licensed material in buildings and in exterior areas on the site, has 
successfully been completed and the facility meets the current NRC 
criteria for release for unrestricted use.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark Roberts, Division of Radiation 
Safety and Safeguards, Region I, 475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, 
PA 19406, Telephone: (610) 337-5094.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Texas Instruments, Incorporated site in 
Attleboro, Massachusetts was identified in 1990 by NRC as a site where 
residual radioactive contamination was present, as a result of past 
operations. Radioactive contamination was identified by Texas 
Instruments in a former burial area on the site. In order to ensure 
that remediation of the burial area was accomplished in a timely 
manner, NRC added this site to its SDMP. Contamination in three of the 
site buildings, as well as additional exterior contamination, was 
subsequently identified. Texas Instruments has remediated residual 
contamination in all of these areas, performed radiological surveys 
throughout the entire site and site buildings, where radioactive 
materials may have been used, and requested, by letter dated October 
29, 1996, that NRC remove the Attleboro, Massachusetts site from the 
SDMP and terminate the license.
    NRC staff has periodically inspected the site remediation 
activities, reviewed final radiological surveys performed by the 
licensee's contractors, and performed confirmatory measurements at the 
site. NRC staff has determined that the facility meets the requirements 
for release for unrestricted use and has removed the site from the SDMP 
and terminated the NRC license.
    For further details with respect to this action, documents are 
available for inspection at NRC's Region I office located at 475 
Allendale Road, King of Prussia, PA 19406. Persons desiring to review 
documents at the Region I office should call Ms. Cheryl Buracker at 
(610) 337-5093 several days in advance to assure that the documents 
will be readily available for review.

    Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 7th day of April 1997.

    For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
John W.N. Hickey,
Chief, Low-Level Waste and Decommissioning Projects Branch, Division of 
Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.
[FR Doc. 97-9394 Filed 4-10-97; 8:45 am]
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